This chapter analyses case studies about the privatization of public spaces in London, by tracing how they change the experience of the metropolis. If the modern metropolis was once read as the space where people would act in a rational, detached, and free manner, now, by analysing these new spaces it is possible to see how they act on affects by framing experiences in terms of individualism and consumerism, and by delivering complex sets of rules that subtly controls users to become passive and obedient. This chapter also traces this process back in time and compares it with the common land enclosure acts to understand how it sets new neoliberal social relations. Finally, by refuting the main argument in favour of the privatization process, it traces down a basis of how urban artefacts are objectified social relations, to be analysed in the next chapters.